Phylum：Anamorphic fungi　>>　Class： Anamorphic fungi　>>　 Order： Anamorphic fungi 
   
 
　BCRC Number： NO BCRC Number!  
   
　Scientific Name： Brachysporiella gayana
 
   
   
　Author：

Brachysporiella gayana Batista, Bolm. Secr. Agric. Ind. Com. Est. Pernambuco, 19:109. 1952..
   
 
 
 
 
　Description： Colonies diameter on Oat Meal Agar larger than 64 mm in 85 days at 25°C, effuse, loosely floccose to velvety, brownish orange to greyish brown; reverse brownish ornage to greyish brown. Mycelium immersed, partly superficial, composed of branched, septate, smooth, subhyaline to brown, 0.7-4.4 μm wide hyphae. Conidiophores macronematous, mononematous, simple or 2-3 fasiculate, often septate, straight or slightly curved, smooth, olivaceous brown to brown or dark brown, 4.8-131.2 × 3.5-9.6 μm. Conidiogenous cells monoblastic. Conidia pyriform or obovoid, truncated up to 2.3-4.8 μm wide at the base, (2)3-septate, smooth, brown, or dark brown, 26.4-42.4 × 14.4-20.0 μm.
 
 
 
 
 
　Specimens：

Taiwan, Huisun, Nantow Pref., on rotten stem, 10 Feb. 1993. TNTU 1070. leg. J.L. Chen.
 
 
 
　Habitat： on rotten stem
 
 
 
　Distribution：

Taiwan, Japan, Brazil, Ghana, Sierra Leone, U.S.A., Australia, Hong Kong, Seychelles, Thailand, New Zealand, Cuba.
 
 
 
　References：

Ellis, 1976; Matsushima, 1975.
   
   
   
　Provided：

J. L. Chen and S. S. Tzean
 
 
　Note： This species is characterized by monoblastic conidiogenous cells and pyriform, septate, brown conidia with truncated at the base.